Sexual harassment in science: them data is startin' to look significant

So, although not strictly related to the events I mentioned earlier, the blog editor of Scientific American has now been accused of sexual harassment. He has issued an apology and has not refuted the Monica Byrne's testimony.Some linkage offered without much comment for now, I just want to aggregate some relevant material for my own reasons if nothing else. It's sort of in chronological order starting with Scientific American's earlier controversy in re the censorship of Karen Stollznow's testimony regarding her own experiences with sexual harassment.1) Prominent skeptic Karen Stollznow's article describing her experiences at the hands of a serial womanizer. The article was censored by Scientific American (but not reposted as far as I can tell).2) Kate Clancy's post, over at her blog Context and Variation, describing an attempt to get to grips with the issue empirically. Also a Scientific American blog, this one was not censored. So that was nice of them. This is unrelated to the current furor, but it's a heartbreaking breakdown of the extent of the problem. The issue of the ever-present "power dynamic", in particular, has caused me to reflect a little on my own working relationships with students and so forth. It not something I'd given a lot of thought to on a personal level during my grad and postdoc years, but as a faculty member the landscape has changed considerably.3) DNLee's initially censored post, which has now been reposted to Urban Scientist, o...
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